Aaron Bell and Andrew Gott win AAS Chambliss Student Awards

WKU Physics and Astronomy Undergraduates Aaron Bell and Andrew Gott, who won the American Astronomical Society's Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award for their poster presentations at the 219th AAS meeting in Austin, Texas. This marks the second and third times, respectively, WKU undergraduates have won this prestigious award.

Courtney Morrow, Owen Gaulle, and Dr. Charles McGruder at the National Society of Black Physicists conference in Austin, Texas, Sept 21 - 24 2011.

Suzanna Sadler, Tara Wink, Julie Scott, and Lydia Brothers presented their work at the 2nd Annual Southeast Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics, held at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville on Jan 14 to 16, 2012.

Tara Wink at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Tara is working with Dr. Kintzel in collaboration with the Sample Environment Group at the SNS investigating thermal gradients on extended samples.

Suzanna Sadler and Schuyler Wolff at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, having a bittersweet moment of a beautiful rainbow, but bad observing weather.

This new supernova, SN2011fe, is the closest one to Earth in nearly 20 years. The image is from the RCT observatory, only a few days after explosion.

Students in Dr. Harper's University Physics I Laboratory study the relationship between force and motion using a hovercraft.

2011 Western Kentucky Physics Olympics

The Purples from Bowling Green High School receive their certificates for winning the Raingutter Regatta event in the 2011 Western Kentucky Physics Olympics competition, held Saturday, 26 February 2011.

2011 Western Kentucky Physics Olympics

The "Girl Power" team uses the electromagnet they constructed to pick up paperclips in the Impromptu Team Activity during the 2011 Western Kentucky Physics Olympics competition, held Saturday, 26 February 2011.